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David B. Tyack (November 17, 1930 – October 27, 2016) was the Vida Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of History, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Tyack is known for his wide-ranging studies and interpretations of the history of American education. Tyack took his undergraduate degree in 1952 and his PhD in 1958, both at
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. His dissertation under Bernard Bailyn dealt with "Gentleman of letters: a study of
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". Tyack taught at
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from 1959 to 1966, the
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from 1967 to 1969, and since 1969 at Stanford University. He received awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
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. Tyack served as president of the History of Education Society, 1970 to 1971. After examining late 19th century reform movements in
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,
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and Chicago, Tyack concluded that, "What the structural reformers wanted to do, then, was to replace a rather mechanical form of public bureaucracy, which was permeated with 'illegitimate' lay influence, with a streamlined 'professional' bureaucracy in which lay control was carefully filtered through a corporate
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." Tyack died on October 27, 2016 in
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from complications of
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.


Bibliography (Selected items)

* Tyack, David B. ''Seeking common ground: Public schools in a diverse society'' (
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, 2003). * Tyack, David B., and Larry Cuban. ''Tinkering toward
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'' (Harvard University Press, 1995)
online
* Tyack, David, and Elizabeth Hansot. ''Learning Together: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools: A History of Coeducation in American Public Schools'' ( Russell Sage Foundation, 1992). * Tyack, David, Thomas James, and
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. ''Law and the shaping of public education, 1785-1954'' (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991). * Tyack, David, and Robert Lowe. "The constitutional moment:
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and Black education in the South." ''American Journal of Education'' (1986): 236-256
in JSTOR
* Tyack, David B., Robert Lowe, and Elisabeth Hansot. ''Public schools in hard times: The Great Depression and recent years'' (Harvard University Press, 1984). * Tyack, David B., and Elisabeth Hansot. '' Managers of Virtue: Public School Leadership in America, 1820–1980'' (Basic Books, 1982). * Kantor, Harvey, and David Tyack, eds. ''Work, youth, and schooling: Historical perspectives on vocationalism in American education'' (Stanford University Press, 1982). * Tyack, David, and Elisabeth Hansot. "Conflict and consensus in American public education." ''
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'' (1981): 1-25
in JSTOR
* Strober, Myra H., and David Tyack. "Why do women teach and men manage? A report on research on schools." ''Signs'' 5#3 (1980): 494-503
in JSTOR
* Meyer, John W., David Tyack, Joane Nagel and Audri Gordon. "Public Education as Nation-Building in America: Enrollments and Bureaucratization in the American States, 1870-1930," '' American Journal of Sociology'' 85#3 (1979), pp. 591–61
in JSTOR
* "The spread of public schooling in Victorian America: In search of a reinterpretation." ''History of Education'' 7#3 (1978): 173-182. * Tyack, David, and
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. "The man nobody liked: Toward a social history of the truant officer, 1840-1940." '' American Quarterly'' 29.1 (1977): 31-54
in JSTOR
* "Pilgrim's progress: Toward a social history of the school superintendency, 1860-1960." ''
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'' 16.3 (1976): 257-300
in JSTOR
* "Ways of seeing: An essay on the history of compulsory schooling." ''
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'' 46#3 (1976): 355-389. * ''The one best system: A history of American urban education'' (Harvard University Press, 1974). * "The tribe and the common school: Community control in rural education." ''American Quarterly'' 24.1 (1972): 3-19.
in JSTOR
* "The perils of pluralism: The background of the Pierce case." ''American Historical Review'' (1968): 74-98
in JSTOR
* ''George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins'' (Harvard University Press, 1967) * "The Kingdom of God and the common school: Protestant ministers and the educational awakening in the West." ''Harvard Educational Review'' 36.4 (1966): 447-469.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tyack, David 1930 births 2016 deaths American historians of education Stanford Graduate School of Education faculty Harvard University alumni